in highly competitive market of food industry maintaining and increasing market share are results of brand performance. hence detecting the effective factors on the brand performance is crucial in strategic marketing decisions. data gathered by a 36-items questionnaire. the sample was composed of 131 managers and marketing experts in 62 companies in food industry those are located in tehran cit...

Marine transgressions or microbial precipitation: What was the controlling factor of continental margin iron formation deposition? Introduction Iron formations, which can be found around the world today, have great importance as sources of iron and manganese ore, clues about the evolution of life on Earth, and even hints at possible life on Mars (Weber et al., 2006). Precambrian iron formations...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for evaluatingthe relative efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) and can also be utilized forsetting target. Target setting is one of the important subjects since according to its resultsefficiency can be increased. An important issue to be currently discussed, is to set targetwhile considering share data. The...

differentiated thyroid carcinomas usually show good uptake and response to i-131 ablative treatment. in this study, 90 patients following near total thyroidectomy who were referred to our institute for i-131 therapy are retrospectively studied. the patients are divided in two groups. group 1 revealed complete ablation after one dose of i-131. group 2 needed more than one dose of i-131 for ablat...

we conducted a study to evaluate efficacy and safety of dimeticone 4%, a lotion with no conventional insecticide activity, to cure lice infection and to prevent spread of infestation/reinfestation by prophylaxis of classmates.the study is carried out between april 2008 and june 2008 in petranova international institute in rome. a total of 131 children, aged 3 to 13 years (median age: 7 years) w...

There are about 200 salt plugs in the southern part of the Zagros Mountain Ranges and the Persian Gulf in Iran (Kent, 1970). The salt comes from the Hormuz salt Formation at the base of the Phanerozoic zone. It moves upward due to the buoyancy, the latteral pressure resulting from the opening of the Red Sea to the southwest, and the weight of several thousand meters of overlying sediments. It m...

This paper examines whether the different types of block shareholdings will have a different impact on the extent of Web voluntary disclosure during the differential privatization stages. Prior literature suggests that block ownership may have a substitutive or complementary monitoring effect on corporate disclosure. However, for economies transferring from state endowment to being privately he...